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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: isode build...
Date: 28 Sep 1996 17:39:02 GMT
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In article <01bbacb8$32fd1f70$aee68bcd@maurizio>,
	"David Buttrick" <debut@mvp.net> writes:

> Does anyone have experience building isode v. 8 under freebsd??

Not personally.

> I have been messing with the make and .h files with no success.
> if you want a dump of the errors, I can get it for you, but I thought i'd
> put this feeler out..

From what I understand it requires a fair bit of hacking.  I think it was
designed to run under older BSD versions (4.2?) and quite a bit has
changed in some of the data structures since then.

BSDi has a port of isode but I guess it required a lot of work.

-Paul-

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